Madame Swetchine Quotes

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy.

One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Youth should be a savings bank.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance;

the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.